Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And, Particularly that Kind which is Proper for the PulpitFarrand, Mallory, & Company, 1810 - 174 Seiten |
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... and Romans , in native simplicity , liveliness , grandeur , and in every thing that can recom- mend truth to our assent and admiration . * 1 DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE . THE FIRST DIALOGUE , BETWEEN A. PREFACE. ...
... and Romans , in native simplicity , liveliness , grandeur , and in every thing that can recom- mend truth to our assent and admiration . * 1 DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE . THE FIRST DIALOGUE , BETWEEN A. PREFACE. ...
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... simplicity : their art is entirely concealed : * nature itself appears in all that they say . We do not find a single word that seems purposely designed to shew the poet's wit . They thought it their great- * When first young Maro sung ...
... simplicity : their art is entirely concealed : * nature itself appears in all that they say . We do not find a single word that seems purposely designed to shew the poet's wit . They thought it their great- * When first young Maro sung ...
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... simplicity , ( which few are able to relish , ) this poet very much re- sembles the holy scripture : but in many * Prima est eloquentiæ virtus perspicuitas ; et quo quisque ingenio minus valet , hoc se magis attollere , et dilatare cona ...
... simplicity , ( which few are able to relish , ) this poet very much re- sembles the holy scripture : but in many * Prima est eloquentiæ virtus perspicuitas ; et quo quisque ingenio minus valet , hoc se magis attollere , et dilatare cona ...
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... simplicity and exactness is sufficient : though some things require vehemence , and sublimity . If a painter should draw nothing but magnificent palaces , he could not follow truth ; but must paint his own fancies ; and by that means ...
... simplicity and exactness is sufficient : though some things require vehemence , and sublimity . If a painter should draw nothing but magnificent palaces , he could not follow truth ; but must paint his own fancies ; and by that means ...
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... simplicity of the evangelical doctrine . Nay I have heard several persons of worth and good judgment affirm that the holy scripture is not eloquent . St. Jerom was punished for being disgusted at the simplici- ty of scripture ; and ...
... simplicity of the evangelical doctrine . Nay I have heard several persons of worth and good judgment affirm that the holy scripture is not eloquent . St. Jerom was punished for being disgusted at the simplici- ty of scripture ; and ...
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Seite 69 - True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 18 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Seite 58 - ... unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words...
Seite 109 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Seite 117 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear...
Seite 136 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Seite 75 - A work t* outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when t' examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Seite 83 - The great rule, which the masters of rhetoric press much, can never be enough remembered ; that to make a man speak well, and pronounce with a right emphasis, he ought thoroughly to understand all that he says, be fully persuaded of it, and bring himself to have those affections, which he desires to infuse into others.
Seite 160 - Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum: ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus.
Seite 32 - Who can behold, without indignation, how many mists and uncertainties, these specious Tropes and Figures have brought on our Knowledg?